This is long, so go make a coffee while it loads (am looking at you, poor people).
Also read the whole thing, including the quotes, because this took forever. I sifted through a lot of nonsense and infected my brain with an endless loop of “Ale-Ale-jaandro” by Lady Gaga, just for you.
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Cultural Marxism is a term referring to a group of Marxists who have sought to apply critical theory to matters of family composition, gender, race, and cultural identity within Western society.
Dadaism is an artistic movement in modern art that started around World War I. Its purpose was to ridicule (poke fun at) the supposed meaninglessness of the modern world. Its peak was 1916 to 1922, and it influenced surrealism, pop art, and punk rock. It favored going against normal social actions.
Neo-Dada is exemplified by its use of modern materials, popular imagery, and absurdist contrast. It also patently denies traditional concepts of aesthetics.
Top 10 songs of the 1930s:
1. In The Mood – Glenn Miller
2. God Bless America – Kate Smith
3. Over The Rainbow – Judy Garland / Glenn Miller
4. Sing, Sing, Sing (With A Swing) – Benny Goodman
5. Silent Night, Holy Night – Bing Crosby
6. Minnie The Moocher – Cab Calloway
7. Strange Fruit – Billie Holiday
8. Crossroads Blues – Robert Johnson
9. Moonlight Serenade – Glenn Miller
10. If I Didn’t Care – Ink Spots
Top Songs of the 2000s
1. We Belong Together- Mariah Carey
2. Yeah! – Usher Featuring Lil Jon & Ludacris
3. Low – Flo Rida Featuring T-Pain
4. How You Remind Me-Nickelback
5. I Gotta Feeling-The Black Eyed Peas
6. No One- Alicia Keys
7. Boom Boom Pow- The Black Eyed Peas
8. Let Me Love You- Mario
9. Gold Digger- Kanye West Featuring Jamie Foxx
10. Apologize-Timbaland Featuring OneRepublic
Pop Stars Then:
Elvis Presley.
Top Hits: Heartbreak Hotel, Return to Sender, Blue Suede Shoes, and Love Me Tender
Frank Sinatra
Top Hits: Strangers in the Night, Summer Wing, and It Was a Very Good Year
The Beatles
Top Hits: Hey Jude, Help, Let It Be, and Hard Day’s Night
Patti Page (one of the most famous pop singers of the 1950s)
Top Hits: Tennessee Waltz, How Much is that Doggie in the Window, All My Love, and I Went to Your Wedding
Pat Boone
Top Hits: Two Hearts, Ain’t That a Shame, I’ll Be Home, and I Almost Lost My Mind.
Teresa Brewer
Top Hits: Music! Music! Music!, Till I Waltz Again With You, and Ricochet (Rick-O-Shay)
Pop Stars Now:
(I will be showcasing the worst, but by no means cherry picking. These are all legitimate, well-known pop stars)
Rihanna
Top Hits: Umbrella, Disturbia, S&M, Hard, Russian Roulette, and Rude Boy
Lyrics from S&M:
“Cause I may be bad, but I’m perfectly good at it, Sex in the air, I don’t care, I love the smell of it, Sticks and stones may break my bones, But chains and whips excite me”
“S-S-S & M-M-M. S-S-S & M-M-M
Oh, I love the feeling you bring to me, oh, you turn me on, It’s exactly what I’ve been yearning for, give it to me strong, And meet me in my boudoir, make my body say ah ah ah”
Some stills from the video:
Rihanna’s success correlates with her increasingly sexualized lyrics and performances. She has received numerous awards and accolades, including five American Music Awards, eighteen Billboard Music Awards, two BRIT Awards and six Grammy Awards. Her “look” seems to be increasingly bondage oriented (perhaps as a way to appear tough after a public domestic abuse case.)
Still from her “We Found Love” video which furthered enraged feminists: “Rihanna’s new video is a disgrace,” said Kelly [Head of the Rape Crisis Center]. “It sends the message that she is an object to be possessed by men, which is disturbingly what we see in real violence cases.”
Here is a picture of Rihanna and her fans:
Update: Rihanna has committed to becoming the poster child for western “humanitarian” military intervention in Africa after promising she will visit Uganda to promote the Kony 2012 fraud, despite Ugandans themselves angrily distancing themselves from the viral propaganda film.
“The Wall has come down, the Stasi have demobilized and are no longer evident, yet in a strange way a spirit of Marxism is abroad in the West. A spirit of Marxism is abroad in the United States, unbelievably so! The number of American Marxist-Leninists you could have gotten in a few taxis to a certain extent, and yet this element of cultural Marxism is abroad in the United States, as it is in Western Europe, as it is in Northern and to a certain extent Southern Europe, as it is much less evidently so in post-Communist Eastern Europe, where there’s been an enormous reaction against it.” - Jonathan Bowden
The Black Eyed Peas
Top Hits: I Got a Feeling, Bom Bom Pow, Imma Be, and Just Can’t Get Enough.
Driving force in divorcing the use of America from proper use of the English language; retarded fashion.
Madonna:
Madonna is probably the most controversial pop star of all time, and a driving force to normalize sexuality, wild promiscuity, homosexuality, the mocking of Christianity and occult themes in popular culture.
All Madonna’s charity work is now focused on Africa (poverty, AIDS, blah blah). She is also is partnered with SocialVibe, the leading social media utility connecting people with brands, empowering them to engage with sponsors and share branded content with their social graph to benefit a cause of their choice. Ha, using brands “as a means of empowerment”. Greedy ass bitch.
M.I.A.
Hits: Born Free, Paper Planes, Galang
M.I.A. cites guerrilla art and fashion as major influences
M.I.A. attributes much of her success to the “homeless, rootlessness” of her early life, and is considered to be a refugee icon. The EMP Museum’s 2008 Pop Conference featured paper submissions and discussions on M.I.A. presented on the theme of “Shake, Rattle: Music, Conflict, and Change.” Throughout her career, M.I.A. has used networking sites such as Twitter and MySpace to discuss and highlight human rights abuses and war crimes.
Prior to her 2008 Coachella festival appearance, M.I.A. filmed from her Bed Stuy apartment window and posted on YouTube an incident involving a black man being apprehended by white police officers, which in light of the Sean Bell shooting incident, elicited commentary debating the force used for the arrest.
MIA’s most controversial video is “Born Free,” which depicting genocide against red-haired adolescents (in America). It was a (not subtle) dig at Arizona’s immigration law. James Montgomery of MTV described it as “unflinchingly, unapologetically real” depicting “the kind of things that most nations — including the U.S., which is portrayed as the aggressor in the clip — often pretend don’t happen: the rounding-up of ethnic minorities, the trampling of personal liberties, the bullying of the powerless by those with authority.”
She supports the Unstoppable Foundation, co-funding the establishment of the Becky Primary School in Liberia. During her visit to Liberia she met the then President of Liberia, rehabilitated ex-child soldiers and appeared as part of a humanitarian mission there, hosting a “4Real” TV-Series documentary on the post war situation in the country with activist Kimmie Weeks.
“It’s taken a little bit of time to examine why Marxism, of all things, has ended up culturally influential in the United States. It’s got little to do with economic theory; it’s got much more to do with self-hatred and negation. Guilt. The extending of your own mental remit into groups that don’t care for you, or that purposefully wish you ill. And it’s got a lot more to do with the architectonics of the Frankfurt school, and its ability to morph and to merge into the general Liberal currency of the last 50 years” -Jonathan Bowden.
Katy Perry
Top hits: I Kissed a Girl (and I liked it), Firework, The One that Got Away
Mostly famous for having boobs, dressing weird, and selling her soul to the devil.
I believe the part about selling her soul BTW. With a mug like this, who wouldn’t attribute her fame to an evil force? Yikes.
Anyway.
Here she is kissing a fan on the lips.
Here she is on Sesame Street:
Here she is with some fans.
and of course the reigning queen…..
Lady Gaga
Top Hits: Poker Face, Just Dance, Born this Way, Bad Romance, LoveGame and Telephone
Lady Gaga is known for outrageous blood soaked concerts and juxtaposing Christian and Satanic imagery with sexual and violent performances.
She has gone on to influence Fashion Week rundown shows and fashion in general.
She is also a dedicated polital activist. She is very vocal about gay rights, pro-immigration, “anti-bullying” (code word for hate speech/thoughts). The U.S. Department was “instrumental” in getting her to perform at the 2011 Europride gay pride event in Rome, as stated by Hillary Clinton. Why the USA is intervening in the socio-political events of Italy, I am not sure.
From Wiki:
“As a humanitarian, she has launched her own non-profit organization, the Born This Way Foundation, which focuses on youth empowerment and issues like self-confidence, well-being, anti-bullying, mentoring, and career development.The foundation will work with a number of partners, including the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, The California Endowment and the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. She also jumped into the debate surrounding SB 1070, Arizona’s recently-enacted anti-immigration law, after premiering her Born This Way song “Americano” on the Guadalajara stop of The Monster Ball Tour in Mexico, telling the local press that she could not “stand by many of the unjust immigration laws” in the US.[177] A devoted advocate for the LGBTcommunity, Gaga is also an outspoken activist for LGBT rights worldwide.[178] On February 29, 2012, Lady Gaga and Oprah Winfrey visited Harvard University to launch her Born This Way Foundation.”
Aside from her powerful social circle above, Gaga has also met with the Queen of England and is a rumored friend of Marxist Slavoj Zizek (who is a friend of Julian Assange- small world). He says of her famous meat dress: ” [The] dress is a reference to “the consistent linking in the oppressive imaginary of the patriarchy of the female body and meat, of animality and the feminine.”
Here are some pictures of the audience from her concerts:
Pop music and stars are marketed to appeal to the largest age demographic possible, which includes teenagers and children.
Lady Gaga started out as Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta but did not have much success with her regular act. Once she changed her image into that of Lady Gaga, she was propelled into instant success. Her first album as Gaga, The Fame, made her a household name.
“The trick that the soft Left has learned is that if you disavow the hard edge of Leftist slaughter and Siberian camps and Stasi prison cells and you instead excel in the polymorphous rebellions of Herbert Marcuse and the student left of the 1960s, you can actually influence the whole soft spectrum from the moderate Right, through the Center, through the center-Left, through the general-Left/Generic-Left, through the soft Left, up to the softest accretions of the hard Left and to the moderate-hard Left. An enormous spectrum – two-thirds of the political spectrum — can be influenced by Marxist ideas shorn of their hard-edge Stalinist and Maoist filters.” - Jonathan Bowden
I think that you should certainly get some kind of award for bravely listening to Lady Gaga so that we don’t have to. Something akin to the Nobel Peace Prize but actually with meaning. The cultural Marxists polymorphic perversity will not sit well with the beneficiaries of their anti-racist multiculturist largess: patriarchal tribal Islam.
I’m afraid that America has the democracy and the pop music that it deserves. We’re not likely to see a change for the better; looking back is the best we can do. Of course, what do I know. I’m listening to Kraftwerk right now so I must be a fascist. };-)
Thank you! I wanted to comment on your blog, but alas don’t know how without the Name/URL choice. The pic of that guy in the red flannel made my ovaries cry.
The thing with Lady Gaga and the rest of them, is that although their music may not be “good” it is certainly well produced and catchy. That is why it is so dangerous- the seemingly innocuous is a vehicle for all sorts of negative messages…not to mention that these stars are the epitome of cool- and therefore the messages they push are deemed “cool” by young people as well.
“Signs and symbols rule the world, not words nor laws.” -Confucius (quoted by The Vigilant Citizen)
Amen, brother.
You do excellent work here, illuminating in clear, crisp images how degraded we have become in the last 50 years. Keep it up.
Thank you!
I use images because I am horrible at writing btw…i’m pretty stupid, lol. But I think pictures can sometimes communicate a message better than words – especially abstractions.
About Rihanna: Her “look” seems to be increasingly bondage oriented (perhaps as a way to appear tough after a public domestic abuse case.)
Or it is the subconscious expression of her desire to be in bondage and dominated by a thug.
Excellent post again, Flavia. Even when the pop stars of the 1930s-1960s had troubles with sex or drugs, their outward image was one of respectability and sobriety. Sometime after the 1960s, artists decided to let their flags fly and exposed themselves (sometimes quite literally) to audiences and fans. Nothing was hidden, nothing was shameful, or sacred. Nothing was private, all was offensive.
I recall being in 7th grade when Madonna’s “Like A Prayer” was released. I was in Catholic school and my parents expressly forbid me to see the video (I was also not allowed to watch Dirty Dancing and a host of other films). My parents knew what I didn’t – this stuff was neither art, nor culture, nor edifying to taste or spirit in any way. It was junk, and still is, as are all of the above examples you list. I am disturbed by the age of these artists’ “fans.” Do these children have parents who care about their development and morality? Well, they have parents somewhere, but the parents have greased their shoes and stepped on the slope of indifference and ignorance of the harmful nature of the new culture. I am certain they scoff at those who disapprove and say “it’s only a little fun for the kids.” I am certain because I have heard this exact phrase from some cousins who let their 7-year olds watch “Jersey Shore” and listen to Gaga. SEVEN!
My retreat from modern culture began many years ago, and it continues. I know of this junk only from peripheral observation and that is enough exposure for me.
Just curious: any plans to do something about dolls then and now? My SIL has purchased several Monster High dolls for her daughter’s fourth birthday. Have you SEEN these disgusting whore toys?
Many excellent points. I think that as far as Rihanna is concerned, she is more an empty vessel than someone who is strategical. There are entire teams of market analysts, record producers, etc that would mold whatever up and coming pop star into what they think will subvert the culture while making money- that’s where I think Rihanna falls into. I do think it is a very carefully constructed image. Others, like Gaga and Madonna are more instrumental in their image and work in conjunction with their team in order to be as subversive and shocking as possible, hiding behind the veil of “art”, of course.
I am greatly distancing myself from popular culture, but it is shocking how these names and songs somehow slip through the cracks. My husband listens exclusively to classical music and a few indie bands (but mostly podcasts), does not watch ANY television, and reads solely classical literature and HBD stuff. But somehow, he knows all the pop stars I blogged about. How does he know them? Why? I think there is a greater force at hand than just selling records and being “shocking”- there is an organized attempt to subvert the culture and push it further and further into the obscene and absurd. And that takes a LOT of marketing from many different mediums.
That said, just allowing your children to listen to this vitriol is unacceptable. When you are 20 years old, you are able to discern that a song is “raunchy” and maybe it becomes kind of a sing-a-long. But when you are a child, you use the world around you to set norms and standards. So a song about bondage, or kissing girls, or satanic imagery becomes normal. It is deeply disturbing.
I also want to add that the envelope is not being pushed in any particular direction. It is not about a line being crossed. I see it more like a cancer, with the evil spreading in many different ways and in many different directions. Rihanna may cross some boundaries, while Gaga others, etc.
I had never heard of those Monster High dolls but they look like whores. I’m going to do a dolls: then and now soon, now that I have the ammo.
The ethnic nature of the decline is also of interest. I put up a post a little while ago that you might be interested in: http://unsafeharbour.wordpress.com/2012/01/03/black-music-and-misogyny/
You aren’t kidding about this blog being depressing.
Alcohol helps.
I agree.
Flavia, when you get to the dolls don’t forget “Bratz,” which are Barbie-ish little dolls with a disgusting porno-ish expression on their faces and giant lips that look like surgery gone bad or someone planted an ass on their face. They have no noses since their lips take up over half the face.
Great job as usual. What are we becoming? Bowden really expresses it very well.
Yes, he is brilliant!
I hate those Bratz Dolls, my sisters used to have them and they really do look like little ghetto sluts. K-Mac hates them too! http://www.kevinmacdonald.net/blog-Bratz.htm
I have to admit – I listen to Rhianna, the black eyed peas, and a lot of the other rap/hip hop artists. Honestly its a damn good way of just breaking down the social pedestal for woman I was raised with as well as letting out some of the frustration. They’re the kind of music I’d recommend to grown men looking to do the same by pointing out how messed up most women are and that they’re not worth idolizing at all.
Kate Perry, Gaga, etc are a whole other story though. Those are people that are very literally trying to turn themselves and the outskirt communities into idols. They want to be worshipped as special snowflakes and are looking for people to see them as ‘the perfect being they were born as for staying true to themselves.’
What a load of crap.
I used to listen to Gaga a bit before seeing how horrible she was about it. It honestly was the same time I was watching Glee that I realized how each of those kinds of media were working in tandem for the same goals – make the norm feel like shit by subverting their morality to uphold the minorities and shame the majorities.
I listen to them too- as in, I know their songs. Although if they are “good” or not can be argued, their music is certainly catchy and appealing. That is why it is dangerous.
Same as with junk food. It may be bad for you, but it’s engineered to make you like it.
Yeah.
Gotta love people. Always willing to serve you something that may be unhealthy for you for their own selfish desires.
I used to be one of the bleeding heart liberals, thinking people were good and society was slowly working towards a utopia where everyone can be happy being themselves. Now I’m definitely seeing that people are all flawed, nothing wrong with it, but that we need those social constructs to function well as a society and are actually in a very quick decline instead of a slow work towards utopia of happiness.
I always wonder, if God had a playlist he was underscoring this part of history with, which song it would be? Right now I feel like its Rhianna’s Love the Way You Lie, mostly because everyone’s eating these destructive lies up like candy.
Once you get off the junk food, you’ll find that it was never as good as you thought it was.
Now, regarding food, I live by the theory that if you couldn’t have eaten it 150 years ago, it’s probably not good for you.
Now when background TV shows come on that I find offensive, I don’t stick around, I know two channels that are always safe and will not cause discomfort. And radio? What’s that? Can’t cut the 35 minutes of commercials per hour.
Adding:
Regarding food, one thing you should not be consuming is anything that lists as an ingredient sodium acid pyrophosphate. It’s used in a lot of baked goods. For me it causes night sweats, those nights where your muscles are tense when sleeping all night, and frequent waking. This is the only additive I have been able to identify clearly as the root cause of what I experienced after consuming so far.
@RJP- Yeah the 150 year rule is a good one. I don’t eat junk food at all, really, just chocolates and ice cream sometimes. Aside from that I cook all our dinners (I usually just have coffees and a protein shake till then) and it’s usually meat, vegetables, potatoes, and the odd beans/rice or pasta. I can’t imagine having things like Wheat Thins or Oreos in the house…(plus my husband would eat them all in one sitting).
Never heard about that ingredient you mentioned, but I’ll avoid it. I do notice that since I got married and started cooking mostly homemade stuff my anxiety fleeting existentialism, lol) has gotten a lot better.
Aside from that I cook all our dinners (I usually just have coffees and a protein shake till then) ….
One meal a day here too, lunch. I use 150 years as a basis for that too as I came to the consensus that less than 10 generations ago being hungry for part of the day was a normal human condition. In that short of a time frame the human body can not change to accommodate unlimited food availability.
And why is this cultural filth allowed to pervade media outlets, to become so popular? Because American parents (and their counterparts in the rest of the West) who aren’t highly religious or reactionary want to be friends with their students, they want to be thought of as cool by their offspring, so they don’t issue complaints or criticism about that which they know arouses the ardor of their kids. I’d wager that mothers are worse in this regard, they embrace the Cult of Cool in a vain attempt (in both senses of the adjective) to hold on to their long-departed youth.
I have compassion for Western parents who consent to this because I remember being a child of the 80s and thinking from about 1987 until the late 1990s that authority figures were overreacting when they’d tsk-tsk mildly in the direction of MTV. My parents weren’t political conservatives, but they were aware for as long as I can remember that pop culture was sick. I reacted to their sage intuition by being embarrassed at what I considered their fuddy-duddery, and by envying my friends for their laissez-faire parents. Pop culture has signalled for decades now that there is some unimpeachable intellectual superiority in the immature mind — Baby Boomers were soaked in this lie from as far back as the “Civil Rights era”, so of course they’re inclined to want the approval of the young.
Yes, pop culture is a union of the Cultural Marxist and the rapacious capitalist — it is social degradation “freaking” to the tune of big, big profits.
“Students” in my first paragraph should read “kids.” Whoops.
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